Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Sheep on the brain

I just realized that Ebenezer Scrooge wasn't the Christmas grinch; he was just a misunderstood sheep.

Wakka wakka wakka!

Life has been busy these chilly days, which I'm sure is no big surprise to anyone living in North America. I'm knitting every moment I can, but I still can't talk about it much, since it's almost all on the down low. Suffice it to say that I'm enamored with worsted weight, rustic, sheepy-smelling yarn. When knitting with Marr Haven yarn, being hypnotized by wool fumes is not just an excuse for extravagance in a yarn store. It is a wonderful reality.

I fussed with my cabled mittens design until I kinda hit a wall; it's on the back burner now, having scratched the itch. So much for my dreams of becoming rich and famous. I can better appreciate the already-designed patterns I'm working on for gifting. Thank you, you smart designers. I enjoy the way your patterns flow so effortlessly.

Between sentences, I'm pausing to knit some honeycomb cables. Now I want to knit a full aran sweater in the color grey. Yumm. Is it bad that I'm fantasizing about smelling like a sheep? (That is to say, because I'm wearing sheep's clothing...)

Because I'm blogging and knitting in entertaining and somewhat mercurial company, the next statement is unrelated to the previous line of thought. The weather is really cold today. Really cold. To all disrespecters, I just want to say,
How do you feel about knitting now?? Huh???

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A Smidgen of Knitterly Jargon

FO - Finished Object

UFO - Unfinished Object

WIP - Work In Progress

KAL - Knit-a-long; knitters near or far unite over a common project/theme, and more-or-less simultaneously progress through the project. Done well, it can be a very nice way to stay connected over long distances... kinda like watching the same movie while staying on the phone does for long-distance dating. It's a shared process.

frog - I appeal to Theresa Vinson Stenersen's explanation in this article

rip - unraveling your knitting by removing the needle and yanking on the working yarn

tink - undoing your knitting one stitch at a time by reversing the knitting process ("knit" spelled backwards)